It was a successful wealthy rich desert pagan nation, and the Prophet Hud visited them some time to provide light relief...The underground oasis cavern collapsed, and then came an 8 day sand storm which burried the kingdom in sand.Hud's followers certainly felt vindicated.

Prophet Hud data, 400/500 Bc?, 200 before Prophet Saleh.The cult of Haddad the Baal of Rain seems to have been favoured by the kings (and the inhabitants). Baal Haddad used to fuck Manat ~(Anat elsewhere) his errr... devoted sister who rescued him from the dragoness of drought Mot and helped him slay it. - Baal epic. (never stopped Manat claiming to be a virgin).wiki Hud. a couple of places have tomb shrines to Hud.Iram, lost city of thousand pillars (ie many).